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david_stone•1d ago

Bent a crowbar cold in my vice last week and it snapped like a pencil

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nathan851•4d ago

Hot take: stop telling new guys to buy a 100 lb anvil first

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karent75•6d ago

Saw a guy at a demo in Stockton weld without any gloves, now I'm second guessing everything

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jennifer_singh•7d ago

Figured out my scroll work looked sloppy because I was hammering at the anvil's edge instead of over the base

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diana_flores25•7d ago

Dropped $180 on a pexto stake plate at an estate sale and it tightened up my scroll work instantly

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jessicaw54•9d ago

TIL the guy at the Fort Worth hammer-in was right about quenching in canola

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jade_grant95•10d ago

My tuyere pipe burnt through 20 minutes into a demo at the county fair, and a piece of rebar saved the whole thing

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lewis.charlie•10d ago

Burned 6 hours chasing a cold shut on a leaf hook before I found the real problem

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angela_dixon•10d ago

Switched from store bought briquettes to lump charcoal in my forge and the difference floored me

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simontorres•10d ago

Rant: retired smith in Ohio told me to quench my 1084 in warm canola oil, and now I can't tell if he saved me or messed me up

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christopher385•11d ago

My first anvil was a rusted railroad track in my uncle's garage in 2009, and I still miss how simple things were

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evannelson•13d ago

A horse farrier in Cheyenne handed me his rasp at 2am and it fixed my worst habit

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danieltaylor•13d ago

Heard a guy at the feed store say nobody under 40 can forge weld anymore

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umab35•14d ago

Cracked my first tongs rivet on a 3/4 inch billet last Tuesday, need a fix

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nina180•14d ago

My old mentor in Akron told me to watch his hands, not his hammer

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